Chapter 62 The Strength Of Alvine.
"Do you have an idea of their strengths?" Asked Alvine, staring at Sabrina. His question was addressed only to her.
"Master, against the Valskar... Alzania is condemned to one-way extermination!" She replied instantly.
Seeing everyone's reaction... Alvine finally realized that the situation was worse than he thought.
"Valskars? Hmm... I guess you haven't revealed this information to the public for fear that panic will settle in your kingdoms? Given your reaction, I can conclude that you agree with Sabrina?" He asked while paying attention to the facial expressions of others. Even the empress of demons looked powerless in the face of Alvine's question.
"Um, what Sabrina has just said is quite correct. During their assaults on the kingdom of Isia, Empress Alice had sent ten emperors as reinforcements... but in addition to the kingdom's army, the eight generals who were all emperor rank plus the king and the ten emperors who had gone as reinforcement... they were all annihilated by a squad of the Valskars!" Answered Celestia when he saw Alice silent. With her position, Alvine was not surprised to see her hold so much information.
"Celestia, I want to know more about them; their strengths, their characteristics... and everything you have learned about them so far." Command Alvine while keeping a steady head.
"That's precisely the problem, we know practically nothing about them. But during this battle over the kingdom of Isia, the little information we were able to learn about them... and that the squad they sent... had only five people of holy rank! And each of them has no problem taking care of three of our men of rank emperors at the same time! The weakest of them was at the great-master rank. But even they had the strength of a warrior of holy rank and destructive magic of holy rank! To give a global explanation, we concluded that each species of this race was gifted in magic and hand-to-hand... they are all mage warriors who can easily defeat our mages or warriors of a rank higher than their own!" She continued her explanation with a flat tone.
"My spies... I mean my informants told me that after their deaths, something that resembles divine punishments or something similar will fall on the person who killed him... can you confirm the authenticity of his information, Granny?" Yury took over after Celestia. Unlike Alice, instead of nervousness, she was rather nonchalant as if these problems did not concern her.
"That's right. Moreover, it was one of his most terrible and mysterious skills that had caused us more headaches. Each victim on their side meant one on our side. An emperor rank can survive the backlash of the punishment of a Valskar of spiritual rank and below other ranks such as the great-master ranks. But on the other hand, they cannot resist the punishment launched by a Valskar of holy rank after the latter's death! In addition, magic has almost no effect on them! They are immunized against elementary and intermediate affinities. The only way to beat them is to cast spells with rare affinities, laws, or melee! Sigh, the situation is really chaotic." Alicia explained.
At this precise moment,
*Toc* *Toc*
"Yes." Answered Alvine.
Subsequently, a red-haired girl entered the room. She was Britannia, the girl who almost had been killed by Sabrina when she reported on Alvine's abduction and Helen's death during the castle attack.
"Lord, mistress, the other guests have just arrived. They ask to escort them to the meeting room." She said with a chivalrous greeting.
"Hm? Well, escorted them so far. We don't need to make a red carpet for that." He says briefly. Even if he could see Britannia's nervousness, he didn't care.
"Are you going to let a slave escort, such guests? They won't like that, you know? I think you'd better...
Even before Celestia can finish her sentence, Alvine waved to her indicating her to stop.
"Britannia is one of the highest people behind Sabrina and the others. On top of that, we don't have time to worry about his little details." He says in a boring tone.
"In short, according to Empress Alice, «the situation is chaotic»? So I can conclude that you have already thought of a plan or a few things that can be considered a branch to save someone from drowning?" While he was speaking, his gaze was fixed on Alice who looked surprised by his ability to analyze.
"I see that you have a good way to analyze the situation. That being said, you are right, but I may let you guess what happens next. What do you think?" She confessed with a mysterious smile.
"Sigh, It was easy to guess since you haven't yet described your situation as a desperate situation. I don't think time is in your favor for this kind of inclination. But because of your presence, and the presence of uninvited guests in my castle, I can conclude that you need something from us. Am I wrong?" He came to this conclusion after careful reflection.
"Hohoho, that's it. But since the others are already present, I think this is the perfect timing to negotiate together." Just after her sentence, the door of the meeting room would open with a dull noise, if the doors were not made with mithril, they would already be on the other end of the room.
At the same time, three crowned men followed by their bodyguards entered the room in a rush. To be precise, he was a charismatic human who had half-long silver hair accompanied by two short dwarves who seemed to have muscles instead of brains.
"Who is the master who dares to dishonor us in this way?! Dared to send subordinates to escort me, Hades a second-class emperor?! I order you to kneel down and apologize in front of my magisterium!" Said Emperor Hades in an angry tone while a crimson red aura was unleashed in his body. He was not the only one to have such a threatening aura around him, the two dwarf emperors looked like two predators who were going to attack the next second.
"Do you think you are equal to us, Just because you are the master of an insignificant little castle? If you do not ask for grace in a minute, you will be sentenced to death for your insolence!" Says the other dwarf emperor. Who was none other than Grumphy who was accompanied by his twin Grampy. They were the two twins who ruled the entire dwarf continent. The others had always shown them respect for them. Not because of their strength, but because of their talents as blacksmiths! These two twins were legends who can forge weapons and celestial grad artifacts!
*Stay in retirement! And none of you is allowed to release the slightest drop of aura in the form of spiritual pressure.* ordered Alivine by the spiritual line he established between her and his maidservants without forgetting Yuer.
*Master, as long as we do not give a good lesson to his lower species, they will not know their place!! Please, master, don't ask us to withdraw and leave this crime unpunished!! * -Says Sabrina, while her whole body trembled under her rage. Despite their efforts to bend him to Alvine's orders, Hades could not help but step back a step when his eyes and Sabrina's eyes met.
*No Sabrina, don't be impulsive to them. After all, they are our uninvited guests. You are not allowed to take care of them.* he said, getting up from his chair and going calmly towards the three emperors at a turtle's pace.
Alvine's actions alerted Sabrina and the others, of course, to know Alvine's personality, and they all knew that he was not the type to move his tail between his legs and apologize. But unlike Those who knew Alvine's personality, Alice and Celestia were sure that Alvine would ask for grace. As for Yury, she did not know how Alvine would react by heading toward them, even if she was not Alvine's target she was still suspicious of him.
'Hm? Was he intimidated so easily? Sigh, I guess I wasn't wrong in the end, it's really a mess to have such people under his command. In the end, when things become a little threatening to him, he is no different from the others!' Thought Alice.
'Strange, how can our future king be weak in spirit?' -Celestia.
The closer he approached them, the more bloodthirsty his placid aura, but his smile did not diminish, his bright white teeth radiated friendship. When he was about five meters from their positions, He stopped clean.
"So far, I have let granny Alice's game pass, because she had been able to stop before crossing the line. But you, my dear friends, have just crossed the line. I ordered my subordinates not to punish you... because I decided to teach you myself why I am the master of this castle!" His innocent smile, his pupils that radiated friendship, his aura that was placid as the lake... everything that defined Alvine's innocence was submerged in nothingness. he directly resumed its form of "god of slaughter"! The nature of his aura itself had changed. The room that seemed well ventilated was now like an underground chamber that had no vents.
Just after speaking his words, the six emperor-ranking bodyguards who protected Hades and the two dwarf sovereigns fell to the ground and died in an abominable agony! Their blood, their magical energies, their vitality... everything was absorbed by Alvine under the influence of the mysterious law he had acquired in the tower. An unclassified law that he had not yet tested...
[Law of Absorption]
The activation of his law and the death of his six people did not take more than five seconds. They were all lying on the floor like mummies. They were all...dead!